ἔστιγοῦν -- δυσδιερεύνητος has been
objected to as adding little or nothing to δύσβατος—ἐπίσκιος. But δυσδιερεύνητος, ‘difficult to beat,’ said of beating or
scouring the brake to rouse (κινεῖν Xen. de Ven. 8. 7) the game and drive it out into the net, could ill be
spared; so apt a word is much too good for a copyist. Cf. Menex. 240 B, where διερευνᾶσθαι is used of the famous ‘beating’ of Euboea
by Datis' soldiers: and see also Laws 698 D.

The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

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